Full game metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Steam app type | game |
| Steam App ID | 3718290 |
| Live current players | 0 |
| SteamPulse tracked peak | 3 |
| Live count (today's peak floor) | 0 |
| Price | $9.99 |
| Free to play | No |
| Discount | 0% |
| Original price USD | $9.99 |
| Current price USD | $9.99 |
| Release date | Nov 17, 2025 |
| Developer | 陈高远狠活工作室 |
| Publisher | 高远全景育成实验学校, 恒枢电子科技有限公司 |
| Owners estimated | Not available |
| SteamSpy owner estimate minimum | Not available |
| SteamSpy owner estimate maximum | Not available |
| Review type | Mixed |
| Positive review percent | 46% |
| Positive reviews | 6 |
| Negative reviews | 7 |
| Total reviews | 13 |
| Steam recommendations | Not available |
| Achievements | 17 |
| Average playtime forever | Not available |
| Windows support | Yes |
| macOS support | No |
| Linux support | No |
| Parent game | Not available |
| Store URL | https://store.steampowered.com/app/3718290/ |
Short description
Cryptobiosis is an experimental narrative game set in China’s Hengshui model. As a god’s-eye playtester in a high school simulation, you step into the running exercise scene, trace and remember ignored lives under hyper-regulated campus management, complete your exam, and rank worldwide.
About this game
Project Overview “Cryptobiosis” is a secondary-school admissions interview electronic stress-testing system jointly developed by Gaoyuan Panoptic Incubation Experimental School and Hengshu Electronics Technology Co., Ltd. since 2003. Built around key factors such as information interaction, time management, and rule compliance, the project is intended to support future evaluations of students’ overall adaptability. The project is currently in a closed internal test phase, with internal testers split into two main groups running in parallel. This page provides the test program for PC-based simulation public testers. You may run the program on your own computer to help us refine process stability, text content, and mechanic details. A stable internet connection is required throughout. ▮ integrity:mismatch | route:store/about_this_game | issuer:ECHO1991 | action:replace:intro-block | scope:1 | ts:2004-09-17T08:42:05Z | checksum:prev=9b72… new=d1f7… | note:public_disclosure ▮ Echo-1991 We are a non-profit, interdisciplinary investigation group formed by graduates of this school and its partner schools. The content below is not published by the project owners—it is text we temporarily took over and replaced. The build currently downloadable on Steam is also our “modified” version . We have no partnership with the project owners, and we oppose their plan to push Cryptobiosis into large-scale admissions use. In this intervention, we have only modified surface-level text. We do not alter your interaction, scoring, uploading, or ranking flow. Our goal is to present real information to the public. Intensive Running Exercise The Cryptobiosis system uses the running exercise scene as its primary entry point. This scene contains dozens of interactive NPCs. The original NPCs were distorted, commercially generated figures created by the company. We have replaced them with first-person accounts based on real interviews and oral histories, attempting to reveal subtle individual stories often ignored by mainstream narratives. The total text volume is approximately 300,000 Chinese characters . Please find them—and read their accounts. While reading, watch for the spotligh…
Supported languages
Simplified Chinese, English